Environmental preservation
- Environmental preservation
Environmental preservation is the strict setting aside of natural resources for their aesthetic value rather than letting them be modified for economic gain. [cite book
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John Muir, an early American conservationist, is regarded as a preservationist. Apart from its use as a pejorative term for environmentalists "preservation" or "preservationist" in the context of conservation or environmentalism is now rarely used.
ee also
* Conservation movement
* Environmental geoscience
* Environmental movement
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